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Inching her Chevy van across water-covered roads and mud flats last week, Mayor Jo Mapel of Bailey's Prairie, Texas, couldn't begin to guess how huge the damage bill would be. Most of the ranching hamlet (pop. 634) near the Gulf Coast lay submerged under the dark red waters of the Brazos River and adjoining creeks. Said Mapel: "Nobody's escaping without big problems. This mess is going to be with us for months...
Rumor: three well-to-do Denver citizens have recently died for lack of hospital care. Fact: most Denver hospitals are so crowded that they have waiting lists of surgical patients. Yet the 700-bed municipal Denver General Hospital has 250 empty beds. To City Councilman Edward J. Mapel, the solution to this problem looked simple: open the city hospital to any paying patient...
Councilman Mapel soon discovered that he had a lot to learn about hospitals. To be acceptable to the American Medical Association and the American College of Surgeons, a hospital must have a staff of doctors from accredited medical schools. This staff is carefully selected by the hospital's governing board, and no nonstaff doctor may practice at the hospital...
...City Council did not dare antagonize Denver doctors by forcing the city hospital to relax this rule. Last week Councilman Mapel, Mayor Ben Stapleton and Hospital Superintendent Carl P. Schwalb worked out a suggested compromise, which was no more than a reaffirmation of widespread hospital custom: in emergencies, the hospital would admit patients of nonstaff doctors, but staff doctors must care for them in the hospital...
Growled Councilman Mapel: "Nobody can touch the American Medical Association. . . . Talk about the closed shop of the A.F. of L. and the C.I.O.-they are a bunch of pikers...